SHO questions/help

[racefan15]

I am brand new to this forum as you will soon discover. I live in central florida and belong to a car club called Muscle Mustangs of Brevard. I have a few mustangs including my new 05 show car, and a 90gt race car. I have decided after having a baby 8 weeks ago that I need a daily driver.
I have stumbled across a 95 sho and know nothing about these cars and was hoping for advice. The guy is asking 3500 (but i hope to get it for 32) It has 75,000 miles, black on grey leather, 5 spd, looks like brand new. This guy has a mustang in my club and a messed up 300zxTT. He takes meticulous care of this car and does all preventative maintanance just because the ford book tell him too. He changes the timig belt at 70,000, not because it was bad, but because owners manual told him to. You can litereally eat off this thing, all maintenance is 100% up to date and every receipt since day one is on time and included.
I just dont know anything about how many miles these yamahas are good for and what common things ot look for when buying one. Any opinions or suggestions for me...Thanks for all your help and if you need to know anytihng about mustangs just give a yell, lol...Thanks a lot, Mike

 

[warmonger]

if he's that metic. than i'd jump on it..thats what these engines NEED to stay running and healthy for 200k+ issues that you'd normally look for,was the full 60K done? not just the timing belt,the valve adjusment,front and rear main seals,wp,cps..etc? common failures,rod bearings seam to be common,at 75K it prob wouldn't be a bad idea to change them,water pump leaking onto the cam sensor is another.

 

[racefan15]

Great suggestions. Thank you very much for input. I will look for receipts for those you have mentioned.

 

[warmonger]

also,another common problem..is the diff pin blowing a hole in the tranny,and what they label as "crank cancer" here on the boards..someone else will have to chime in with what exactaly that is,all i know is that it has to do with the keyway on the crank... so yeah,check on a full 60K valve adustmenat and timing belt being the two main parts of it,also,its a non interferene engine,so no worries there.

 

[projectSHO89]

if he's that metic. than i'd jump on it..thats what these engines NEED to stay running and healthy for 200k+ issues that you'd normally look for,was the full 60K done? not just the timing belt,the valve adjusment,front and rear main seals,wp,cps..etc? common failures,rod bearings seam to be common,at 75K it prob wouldn't be a bad idea to change them,water pump leaking onto the cam sensor is another.

Where to start...

Replacing ther ear main is done only when the tranny is pulled. No one in their right mond will pull a tranny just to replace a seal as PM.

The WP cannot leak onto the cam sensor since the sensor iuphill from the pump.

Valve adjustment is due, however, at 75 K with meticulous oil changes, I'd suspect there's nothing wrong there yet.

Rod bearings? Give them another 60K or so...

Steve